Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 21, 2010
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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SES Chicago: Social Goes Local
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 9:40pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 Chicago
Below is live coverage of the Social Goes Local from the SES Chicago conference.
This coverage is provided by Sheara Goldenthal of Promediacorp.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
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SES Chicago: Digital Asset Optimization
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 8:25pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 Chicago
Below is live coverage of the Digital Asset Optimization from the SES Chicago conference.
This coverage is provided by Sheara Goldenthal of Promediacorp & Avi Wilensky of Promediacorp.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
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SES Chicago: Maile Ohye, Senior Developer Programs Engineer, Google
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 5:10pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Strategies 2010 Chicago
Below is live coverage of the Maile Ohye, Senior Developer Programs Engineer, Google from the SES Chicago conference.
This coverage is provided by Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick .
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
Maile Ohye, Senior Developer Programs Engineer, Google
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More Google May Day Theories, Five Months Later
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 3:34pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
It is over five months since the Google May Day update docked and we still have many SEOs and webmasters talking about it. The last time we covered it was at the end of September, under the May Day Monster.
I wanted to point you back to that thread, where we have a long time contributor to this site (in the form of many many comments). Michael Martinez added what he has seen over the past several months.
Sites complaining about the May Day update all share similar characteristics, Michael said:
- Sites are long-established (2-10 years).
- Sites had well-established referral traffic from popular queries up until August.
- Sites were pushed down to page 2 or further for multiple queries.
- Sites continue to rank well for low-traffic queries.
- The high traffic queries now feature many "well-known" sites that may not necessarily equivalent or better value in terms of content.
- The standard SEO help coming from various forums (including this one) has failed to resolve the issues and left a lot of Webmasters wringing their hands infrustration.
He believes it may be due to:
1) That Google may be paying more attention to on-page (quality) signals
2) That Google may simply have devalued another horde of links
Or none of the above.
Anyway, the discussion is a bit heated in the Google Webmaster Help thread, so have fun.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
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Why Don't Google Webmaster Tools & Google Analytics Match Up?
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 3:34pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Tracking Conversion Measurements
A common question I see asked in the SEO/SEM forums is why don't the analytics in Google Webmaster Tools, where it says click throughs and the metrics in terms of traffic to your site in Google Analytics match up with each other?
It is so common that Google's Matt Cutts offered a few reasons in a recent video:
In short:
(1) Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics are independent tools and all independent tools are not always exact.
(2) Google Webmaster Tools tracks actual clicks on your listings, whereas Google Analytics only tracks you if the page loads and the JavaScript code is activated. So if people don't let the code to load, either closes quickly or turns off JavaScript, then it won't count.
There are some other reasons...
Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.
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Canceling A Google Reconsideration Request
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 2:55pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
A Google Webmaster Help thread asks a question I honestly never thought of before. Why isn't there a way to cancel a reconsideration request in Google Webmaster Tools?
The webmaster said he submitted a reconsideration request but did it for the wrong reason. He said, "I'd like to cancel that reconsideration. Searching the forums I found "Don't worry about it". That's not quite what i wanted to hear about this."
Why would you want to cancel such a request?
(1) The issue is no longer an issue.
(2) You rather not waste Google's time reviewing your site.
(3) In hindsight, you prefer Google not manually review your site.
(4) Some suspect a reconsideration requests starts you back at zero.
Unfortunately, there is no way to cancel a reconsideration request at this time.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.